IBM Aspera on Cloud vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

IBM Aspera on Cloud

IBM Aspera on Cloud

46 Reviews and Ratings

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

16 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Aspera on Cloud	Score 7.1 out of 10	N/A	IBM Aspera on Cloud is an on-demand SaaS offering for global content transfer and exchange. It enables organizations to move large files and data sets securely and reliably across on-premises and multi-cloud environments at high speed. With Aspera on Cloud, organizations can store and access files and folders across multiple cloud-based and on-premises storage systems. Sharing among users is as simple as browsing or drag-and-drop — no matter where the files are stored — making…	$1.01 per month per GB transferred
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP	Score 9.1 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	NetApp's Cloud Volumes ONTAP combines data control with enterprise-class storage features for various use cases, including file shares and block-level storage serving NAS and SAN protocols (NFS, SMB / CIFS, and iSCSI), Disaster Recovery (DR), Backup and Archive, DevOps, Databases (SQL, Oracle, NoSQL), or any other enterprise workload.	$0.64 Hourly

Pricing

IBM Aspera on Cloud

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Editions & Modules

Pay as You Go: USD 1.01
per month per GB transferred
Essentials Edition: Starting at $250.20
per year
Standard Plus Edition: Starting at $7488
per year
Premium Edition: Contact Sales
per year

Explore: $0.64
Hourly
Standard: $1.68
Hourly
Premium: $2.71
Hourly
Bring Your Own License (BYOL): Purchased from NetApp

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Aspera on Cloud	NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	IBM Aspera on Cloud	NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Considered Both Products	IBM Aspera on Cloud Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud AWS Backup Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud Terrible for large files. No audit trail. Incentivized Helpful? Korey Pereira Post Sound Professional Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud Used with larger studio clients Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud Teams can be really slow and the downloads sometimes come out corrupted or the program will just quit or it doesn't seem to like all files to download. While IBM Aspera is more universal and versatile with the files it downloads. Teams might look flashy but its not the best … Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Lanoix Director, Global File Transfer Services Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud IBM Aspera always surpassed the competition in terms of features and admin/user friendliness. The cost per Gibabyte is the best, with a very simple cost structure. One element : Total amount of data transferred. Coming from a company that has been one of the first 5 customers … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud We've also used cloud storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive, and Amazon S3. While they're great for file sharing, they weren't optimized for high-speed transfer of large files. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud IBM Aspera on Cloud offered better security, encryption and compliance Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud It is not as comparable since they are different products Incentivized Helpful? Atilla Celiloglu Broadcast Tech. Director Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud FileCatalyst and Signiant Media Shuttle Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud These cloud storage products deliver sufficient space to store data and access and have an array of ways to transfer this data and keep it secure. IBM Aspera on Cloud focuses on the transfer and makes it a lot faster mainly due to its patented tech and altered UDP protocol. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud It was the proficient cost for delivering large files Incentivized Helpful? Ben Holmes Informatics Supervisor Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud Aspera comes with IBM cloud so there isn’t really a choice. Since it’s built-in, it integrates well and there was no need to buy another solution. Therefore, I did not consider other options. It worked fine, gave access files, push data securely, and did it faster than standard … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud Aspera was used by most of our members (but not all), IBM consultancy was able to help for setting up the infrastructure in a couple of hours. This was quick and effective. We were able also to use quickly the ASPERA API with external tools to make exchanges between Aspera sites. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud They are all good services as well for smaller files, but for large files using a service like Aspera is imperative since otherwise, you have to start an upload/download all over if it stalls or fails. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud Aspera works with external entities that don't have Google accounts. Its a less of a headache to integrate or force people to use Google products. Incentivized Helpful? Prathamesh Muzumdar Team Lead Manager- Analytics Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud My company used Dropbox before we implemented Aspera. When it comes to file security we felt more comfortable in Aspera. The file transfer speed especially uploading and downloading files using Dropbox was very low. We found it not that reliable when it came to file transfer. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud File size is not limited with Aspera on Cloud. Also, the speed is really, really fast compared to others. Finally, the security features make it more reliable than other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud Other services were very barebones and did not offer storage options. The option of not using on-premise storage for a transfer solution is a game-changer. We can rely on the distributed node advantage for data protection and speed, while still maintaining the integrity of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud Aspera Managed File Transfer racks up evenly against its' competitors. I use different programs to share and upload media to different affiliates, however this program seems to be one of the most popular in the industry. This could be due to the ease of use, and the fact that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud Initially the organization depended on services like Dropbox and Google Drive to share and store files for the graphic department as well as use their own private servers for storage. However, the speed for uploading and downloading wasn't reliable. Plus it lacked the central … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud Fast and accuracy Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud IBM Aspera on Cloud is a de facto industry solution and occasionally a requirement to work with some of our partners. Incentivized Helpful? TR Tina Roberts Software Engineer Chose IBM Aspera on Cloud I used TokenOne at my last Job. It is a good product. I would describe Aspera as a more enterprise-ready solution. It gives you the ability to scale. Incentivized Helpful?	NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Randy Carpenter Vice President Chose NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP There really isn't any other option for a work-alike, particularly if using NetApp as primary storage. For us, the option was to just not have this extra tier, utilizing more storage space for snapshots and leaning more heavily on our separate backup servers. We still use the … Incentivized Helpful? Bill Floyd CIO/CTO Chose NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP We evaluated AWS Storage Gateway against NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and we found that NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP outperformed AWS in the following areas: It is easier to set up, configure, and implement than AWS. It has an easier to use and familiar storage volume management … Incentivized Helpful? Gary Slebrch Director of Enterprise IT Chose NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP ScienceLogic SL1 and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) were the closest competitors to meeting our business objectives. Tivoli Storage Manager was not able to meet the initial requirements. There was a significant overlap of capabilities between ScienceLogic SL1, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Cost was a huge factor and ease of integration and deployment led us to ultimately choose NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for our tertiary backup design. For our lightweight applications, we chose NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP because we were able to kill two birds with one product and … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	IBM Aspera on Cloud	NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Likelihood to Recommend	7.3 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.1 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Aspera on Cloud	NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Likelihood to Recommend	Barring the cost-prohibitive nature of some of the IBM Aspera solutions, IBM Aspera on Cloud is the appropriate solution for many file transfer workloads. Even at smaller volumes and lighter-weight files, Aspera's Hot Folder automation is a well-built and excellent solution for most file transfer needs. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It is well suited to store lower-tier data in the cloud to free up space on primary storage. For our use, it is really only currently viable for things like snapshots and backups. Other organizations may find it useful for secondary-tier archival storage as well. At this point, I don't really trust any cloud solution as primary storage for anything. This may change in the future, but for backups and such, it is a nice option. Incentivized Randy Carpenter Vice President Read full review
Pros	Ease of use: the Graphical User Interface doesn't require technical know-how to operate Delivery Receipts: this allows us the confidence to know our files have reached our customers Activity Monitor: lets you know how much data you have used, which is important for budgeting reasons. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Integrates into major Cloud vendors. Integrates with NetApp infrastructure. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Track upload/download usage OVERALL to know how much space is left Track cloud storage overall to know how much space is left More easily send single links to users for download, rather than full access (I know it is possible, but it is not intuitive) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Tighter integration with third-party (non-storage) monitoring tools CMDB classifications break down when integrating with ServiceNow Migrating storage workloads from one cloud service provider to another Incentivized Gary Slebrch Director of Enterprise IT Read full review
Usability	My experience with Aspera applications and with other vendors. My score will go to 8 as soon as AoC's Files App has the Search Through Sub-folders feature. We want to remove Aspera Shares, which has an older inefficient user interface. Incentivized Daniel Lanoix Director, Global File Transfer Services Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	The support from IBM is fast and reliable. Very knowledgeable engineers provide you with the support on Aspera. We had a very good experience when opened tickets and we were able to get our issues resolved quickly. Most solutions are provided within a day so you can expect a quick turnaround time. Overall, the support has been very good. Incentivized Prathamesh Muzumdar Team Lead Manager- Analytics Read full review	Haven't had to use it. Incentivized Randy Carpenter Vice President Read full review
Implementation Rating	The service provided by the authorized vendor was excellent. It was a good collaboration between the vendor IT team and internal IT team. They provided us with a timeline and we verified and approved that timeline. Daily stand ups and weekly meetups were conducted to update the internal team on progress. They were able to deliver all deliverables on time also, they conducted both alpha testing and beta version testing in time. Overall, they were able to complete the implementation in the given timeline. Incentivized Prathamesh Muzumdar Team Lead Manager- Analytics Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Teams can be really slow and the downloads sometimes come out corrupted or the program will just quit or it doesn't seem to like all files to download. While IBM Aspera is more universal and versatile with the files it downloads. Teams might look flashy but its not the best with actually transferring important data quickly like Aspera. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	ScienceLogic SL1 and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) were the closest competitors to meeting our business objectives. Tivoli Storage Manager was not able to meet the initial requirements. There was a significant overlap of capabilities between ScienceLogic SL1, SolarWinds SRM, and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. The latter provided a more positive and cohesive experience for our administrators and executives. Incentivized Gary Slebrch Director of Enterprise IT Read full review
Return on Investment	Fast transfer of internal files means that more space available at production for more features Internal logs are now easier to transfer and faster to batch process, giving the ability to draw out conclusions and work on improvements faster Good metrics by aspera lets report creation of any transfer easy and transparent. Was previously a tiresome thing to do Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Increased costs at lower data volumes but better pricing by 20% over 10Tb Easier to manage storage volumes with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Better performance with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Incentivized Bill Floyd CIO/CTO Read full review
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